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One factor that makes glioblastoma cancers so difficult to treat is that malignant cells from the tumors spread throughout the brain by following nerve fibers...

It is a sad fact that old age brings diseases. Many may not be life-threatening, but they make life less fun. One such condition is...

One of science's strongest dogmas is that complex life on Earth could only evolve when oxygen levels in the atmosphere rose to close to modern...

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have pinpointed why normal aging is accompanied by a diminished ability to regain strength and mobility after...

One of the major problems in today’s society is the efficiency and cost of developing medicines to treat disease. The advancements in pharmaceutical science have...

Testing the effects of drugs on a simulated brain could lead to breakthrough treatments for neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s, Huntington’s and Alzheimer’s disease.Researchers from...

Second-year bioengineering doctoral student Sylvia Natividad-Diaz may have found a way around a persistent obstacle in the treatment of HIV/AIDS—identifying when an HIV-positive patient’s condition...

High-tech glasses developed at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis may help surgeons visualize cancer cells, which glow blue when viewed through the...

For the first time, scientists at King’s College London have identified a gene linking the thickness of the grey matter in the brain to intelligence....

In a study published today in Nature Communications, a research team led by Ken Shepard, professor of electrical engineering and biomedical engineering at Columbia Engineering,...

We invite a molecular biologist or biochemist with an interest in questions of gene regulation to join our team at the Gene Center Munich. Our...

In 2011, biologists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) demonstrated a highly effective method for delivering HIV-fighting antibodies to mice—a treatment that protected the...

Metastasis, the spread of cancer cells from a primary tumour to different organs, is responsible for more than 90% of deaths due to cancer. Current...

A cochlear implant that can be wirelessly recharged would use the natural microphone of the middle ear rather than a skull-mounted sensor. Cochlear implants —...